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TW(j DOLLARS PER ANNUM, y GOD A.TSTD OXJH COUNTRY. <| ALWAYS IN ADVANC5. VOLUME 3. SATURDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 20. 1869. NUMBER 40. ! r* U&?LiNIT?LD U ?I3 i> ?j w d "* ? :o:? PUBLISHED AT ORANGEBURG, 8. Ci Every Saturday Horning. ?to:? nHAS. ff. HALL & CO. PUBLISHERS AND PROPRIETORS. ?to*? TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. Ono Copy for one year.... $2.00 \ ?. t. .< gjx Months. 1.00 Any one sending TEN DOLLARS, for a Club of Now Subscribers, will receive an EXTRA COPY for ONE YEAR, free of ?barg?. Any one sending FIVE DOLLARS. Ter a Clnb of New Subscribers, will receive ?n'ESTRA COPY for SIX MONTHS, free of ?charge. ?:o:? RATES OF ADVERTISING. I Square 1st Insertion. $1.50 ? 2d ? . 1.00 A Square consists of 10 lines Brevier or ??ae inch of Advertising space. Administrator's Notices,.$5 00 Netsces of Dismissal of Guardians, Ad ministrators, Executors, &c.$9 00 Contract Advertisements inserted upon the featot liberal terras. 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KENNERLY, OttAIGEBIIRG, XTAVISO REMOVED TO THIS BLACK, J I Bespeelfully offers his Professional Services to the Cltixens and Vicinity. Offiee en Russell Street, opposite Bull, Seovill & Pike's. mar 13 2m DR. J. R. TOOMER, ORANGKBURG, S> C. RESPECTFULLY INFORMS THE ClTD 5REN4 of Orangeburg and Vicinity thnt he has resumed the Practice of Medicine, and ?an be found at his Residence on Russell fltreet. jnn 1 r.?ly D. AV. HOBINSON. * ABU ION Am,!? TAILOR, I have the pleasure to announce to rny mi rnerous Customers and the Public generally, *hat having removed to a Central Position, handy and convenient to all, 1 am now pre pared Cat. Pit and make Up a GENTLE MAN'S WARDIIOBR with Neatness and Despatch. Terms liberal and Work War ranted. Thankful for the Patronage of the past, I reepeelftilly, solicit its continuance. Next door to Messrs. Bull, Soovill A Pike, I pan be 'ound at all times. Jan?? ly i>. w. robinson. CRACKERS AN? VAKEN.? By the BOX and at RETAIL, a choice assortment of CKACKKhS nnd CAKES, SNAPPETS. JUMBLES. CREAM, SODA, Ae., Ae.? MOLAS8E8 CAKES furnished at lew rates by the Barrel or Box. Call nnd ?ee Samples. JOHN A. HAMILTON, eat 0? ?m Court House Store. Josh ??Ung? and the I^ektrir C?m mitty. It is p.i ven to the world that once on a time tho following letter was sent to Josh Billings, dated from Salt Point : J. Billings, Esq.:?I am instructed by our association to iuquiro of you, and solicit a reply, if you could rood a dis course before our lyceuui this winter, and if so, at what time, on what subject, and upon what terms. Most respectiully yours, KZKA SMITH, Cor. Sec. To which Josh give the following re ply, dating from Pokipsy : Smith, mi Dear :?This day, at 10 o'clock A. M., I cum in contact with your letter, nod was real glad tew hear from yu. How do you like being Cor. Sek. OY it Ey-Asaoti' ? It is a light, pretty bizziue&s, and don't requiro much capital. Let mc ask yon if you are nny rela shttn of Jake Smith, the hatter. If you arc forfait it, for Jake is a common euse The Smiths are a good futnily, and prevail more pcrmiskus thnn nny kind ov folks that I know ov, but it would be unnatural in the highest, if there want some, wharc they was so thick, that was wus8 than the rest. Did you ever rend history Ezra ? If you didn't yu will bo surprised tew hoar that Johu Smith married Pokcrhontas the duttghter of Powhattan, the inj mi boss. The way this happened was so ; Smith was about getting slowed, when Poker hotitas went in mid full flat on him. Old Pnwhattan give it up. and Pokerhontus h id Smith, und Smith settled down and went into the injun hir.iinc.ss, in a small way. on his own hook. This is the grist ot the story. Tis one ov the most uficctingest trans actions on file. You ought to read history Ezra ; i: will leant you informasliuti. and gtve-yn a ktmlledgc ov cdncashun. I forgot tew state that Johu Smith lived somewhere in peusylvauy, at the time his truiisakshuns with Pokcrhontas took place, and if he ain't dead probably I lives thare now. There is one lust rate ' thing about history ; it is alwus true ; if it ain't true, it ain't history. Bo If you lurn it oust, yew ucver have tew unhar ness. John Smith, who had the trausakshun with Pokcrhontas, had an immense in voice of b?>ys, thare is 13 ov that name in our town this morning, besides several who have either died or gone to Dcucver City. Did it ever strike, Ezra, that death was one uv of the must remarkable thins that could happen tew n man ? A man may be ritch, and kuo history just like slupj^d^s for breakfast, and be handsuniable to lift a ton without think ing but death beats awl these just as easy as lot in crackers. Death secuis to be as far as a man eati git; when a nmu acquires that thorough ly, his ambishun secuis to be satisfied. One man can bo richer, and lilt more than another, but he kant bo any mure deader. 1 am glad there is one thing in this world that is enuff for man. ^peaking uv man, Ezra, dew yoil kon tier hin a suckcess yet, or has lie got tew try ng:;:n ? History bus a go< d deal tew say about man, that don't nllude to his success. A dew, Er.ra. Y'onrs, full ov oats, JOSH HILLINGS. P. S.?I'll do it for seven dollars and thirtccti cents. J. H. P. S.; P. S.?Time Jany the oust. J. B. P. S.; P. S.j P.?Subject, The Fleeti noss uv Things. J. 11. Complaints having been tuado that certain postoffice employes upon the rail roads were doing a uice biudness for them selves lit the expense of regular dealers, who are required to pay faro when trans porting produce to murk et, tho Posttnus ter-Cctierul ordered the following to be incorporated in the instructions: "Traffic in merchandise, while on duty, for tho personal profit of a railway post-office clerk, route agent, or mail route messen ger, even though the regular tariff rates of the railroad company arc paid thereon, is nbsoluterly prohibited. Post-office railway clerks, roytc sgeiits, and mail, routo messengers, must confine them* solves whilo on the train strictly to tho duties imposed on them by tho Depart ment." A VVuKD TO 1'ARKNTH.?Do ?peak kiuuly iu your little osea ! Their hearts are brimful of hive tor you. Put your self on tin equality with them; join in their little sports ami pastimes. Do not feeP-thnt you compromise your dignity by such acta. It will cause them to open their hearts to you, and you will uncon sciously*, g.<in their lovo und confidence, by which, with proper training, you may save them a world of trials, and perhaps from a career of crime. To my mind* there can be iiu more heart sickening sight that) to see a child, large or small shun the presence of its parents. When you see this the case, rest us surcd there is something wrong. Parents, for Heaven's sake ! do not lie -tern and overbearing toward your children ; recol lect you were a child once ; let them feel in their hearts that you ure their bust earthly friends, ever ready to sympathize with thetn in their sorrows or their joys. If they commit an error sometimes, apeak to them gently of it, not before strangers, or you will destroy all the good effect it might have had by pursu ing u contrary course. Dead and dirct?do not drive. Say what you have to say gently and kindly, not with anger on your brow, and in tones that would lead one to suppose they were culprits, and you a stern judge in.'toad of a loving, tender parent, as you should be. Anger is a blight. God or,ly knows bow much has withered under its influ ence. It has broken bonds of* friend ship, and severed family ties. Do you try to make home attractive? If uot, you commit a great error. Lot it be, to your children, the "dearest spot on earth;" the great world will beckon them uwny from the home nest soon enough ; care and pain will write their hearts' sorrows on their faces, line their foreheads, dim their eyes, und blot out their dimples. Let us, therefore, do all wu can to make tb ir childhood and youth happy and joyous; and'when they-gntrat Vs&M it, to mingle with the cold unfeeling world, it will be to them a green spot ever iu memory, to which their minds ean revert with pleasure. Let nie say again, speak gently to your children ; it will cost you nothing, hut will make their hearts glad. Kncnuragc them to bring their associates home with them ; you ean then see if they are pro per ones, ami 'point out traits to be shunned or imitated. Cultivate a kindly disposition to all; especially to little children. It will pay. - ???> - * - ^s? The editor of the Buffalo Express is a devoted nnd uffectiouate son. Ho re marks upon bis visit to the paternal tomb of Adam are as follows : The tomb of Adam ! How touching it was, here iu the laud of strangers, far away from home and friends, and all who eared for me, thus to discover the tomb of a blood relation. True a distant 000, but still a relation. The unerring in stinct of nature thrilled its recognition The fountain of my filial affection was stirred to its profoundest depths, and I gave wny to tumultuous emotion. 1 leaned upon a pillar ami burst into te ns. I deem it no shame to have wept over the grave of my poor dead relative. Let him who would sneer nt my emotion close this volume here, for he will fiml little to his taste in my journeying through the Holy Land Noble old man. he did not live to sec me?he did not live to see bis c.iild. And I, I?I? alas, 1 did not live to sco bint. Weighed down by sorrow nnd disappointment, be died before I was born. Hut let us try to bear it with fortitude. Let us trust tbnt 1 be is better off where be is. Di tch Cubic for Drunkenness.? Tho following cure for drunkenness is practiced in Holland : The patient is shut up in u room, nml debarred all com munication, except with his physician. As ofteu ns he pleases, spirits?branJy, whiskey, giu, &c.?are given him, but mixed with two-thirds water ; till other drinks, HUuh as beer, coffee, wine, &c, are ini.v d with one third brandy. The various viands, too, that are given him? bread, meats, eke.?are nil prepared with brandy; consequently the patient is in u state of continual intoxication. This lasts about five days ; at the end of that time he usks with cutrouty for some nour ishment, without his request being com plied with, and not until his organs ab solutely abhor alcohol. The cure is complete, mid from that dny forth the very smell of spirits produces the offoct of an emetic How a Giant PuuiLfor Tuains Himself for a Fiout]?SftCoole is now in training for Iiis light with Allen. The St. Louis Republican Bays of his method of training: . He sleops on a good mattress, with plenty of warm covering-rises promptly at five o'clock in the morning, rain or shine, mi.1 immediately .proceeds to a shed room in the rear of tho lot, about ?ten by twelve, where hrT exercises with the dumb bells, a suspended sand bag weigh in a ubout Tour hundred pounds, cannon ball-, mid two heavy bugs attach ed to cords running overja. pulley. This exercise is continued for about half an hour, and is done to develop the muscle of the arm, the flesh on which now feels like buckskin stretched over marble. Af ter this he wraps himsclfi, up us warm as possible and muflles up his face so ns to be hat illy dicrerniblc \'df the purpose of producing profuse pt-rspumtiou and, starts out for his four mile walk?two in and two out. Returning, ho uudcrgoes a salt-water bath and a? pretty severe scrubbingand rubbing p'coccss; sufficient ly rough, indeed, to take the skin off al most any other man but him. After the bath he dresses warmly again uud rests awhile, und then breakfasts moderately on beef or mutton, with trim tilings?the meat, of course, always'tfare. His diet is substantial, and varies but little from that of a laboring man although proba bly lie does not cat as much. After breakfast comes n rcstjof an hour or so, until one o'clock, when he dons his walk ing shoes, each weighing ubout five pou.ids. and, accnmpaiasd by one or both of his trainers, and win muffled up, he starts out on a wnik of from thirteen to sixteen mi los.'and as n walk ist, he is a decided success. A day or bo ago, when the Natural 1 ridgJ road, and indeed all the roads about flje suburbs of the city, were in a muddy, slippcny condition, h walkeTI fourteen miles in one hour and fifty mi .utes, loaded doWai as he waswith thi Jig*i j??tydvS*flfcfr>-tfc ?uui luiikheHeh so little fatigued that he could have re peated in the same time. His powers of endurance are astonishing. On his' re turn from the walk he enjoys a short rest, then eats supper, ai.d a short time after supper comes another walk of two or three miles. He ur\er ventures out after the dampness of evening sets in, and is iu fied promptly at eight o'clock. These are his everyday exercises, rain or shine.-' A Wonderful Prize Ksrav.? Prize essays are so common that they excite little interest nnw-a-days. Particularly is this true of medical prize essays; but one his recently been written which deserves mention at least. It seems that some time ago, the Massachusetts Medi cal Society offered a prize of fifty dollars for the best dissertation on ventilating sick rooms at the least expense, with the least difficulty, and at the moment needed Whereupon somebody writes as follows: ??/'?// down the upper window sn-hund leave tin fireplace '>j<*h.'' This is all there is of it. We query whether there has ever been a medical essay ? ritten which was tu -re pointed and practicable, [f this piper does not win the fifty dollars, we propose to laise that sum from private sources, and pay it over to the author. Sometime.* it decs ;i grcul deal of good to tell people, ill plain English, what thoj already know <o thoroughly thai they hardly know it at all.?-Heraid of ! Hmhh. Hen Persuader?The Springfield Republican, in speaking of a new inven tion for a hen's nest, whereby tho cg;_s drop through a trup-door, and so deceive the hen that she keeps on laying, is re sponsible for the following : "Hlobbs met with a loss, however, with one of the persuaders. Blobba hud a lively young Shanghai pullet of boundless ambition. Blobba bought a persuader and his lone shanghai used it. She went upon the nest in the morning. Hlobbs saw her go,and his heart bounded within him. Alas ! he never saw her collie off again. At night he visited the per und er. In the upper compartment was a linudful of feathers, a few toe nails und n bill, in thu lower compartment wore three dozen and eleven eggs ! Hlobbs saw it all! Her delicate Constitution hud been unequal to the effort ; she had lain herself away. A man in Nowburyport, Mass., has been nominated for Representative by one political organization and for Senator by another. A Hoy's Composition.?Ma is my i mother. I am nur eon. Ma's saois is Mra.-Shrimp and Mr. Shrimp ia her hus band. Pa iB my father. My name is John George Washington Shrimp.-? Thereforo pa's name is Shrimp; so is ma's. My ma has a ma. She is my grand* ma. She is mother-in-law to pa. My pa says mother-in-laws ought to be ve toed. I like my graudma better than pa 'does' She brings me ten cent stamps and bolivars. She don't briug auy to pa. May bo that's why he don't like her. Aunt Jcrusha is my aunt. When pa was a little boy she was his sister. I like little sisters. Dickey Mopps has a little Hater. Her name is Kose. I take her out riding on my sled. Aunt Jc rushu don't like her. She calls her "that Mopps girl." I thiuk aunt Jorusha ought to be ashamed of herself. Aunt Jcrusha is a very pious woman. She never wants us to talk loud on Sun day, and sftys wc ouirht to have cold din ners. She hears me say the catechism, and knows it all v. itbout the book. She Susan June is spoiling that boy; Susan Jane is my ma ; t mit boy is me. She says she hopes baby will curly show a change of heart. If a change of heart would make baby atop crying, I wish so too. Aunt Jerusha livus with us. Some times I think ma would rather ha\< her live with somebody else. I usked aunt Jerusha once why she didn't marry somebody und sot up for herself. She said many a man had wuuted to marry her, but while poor Susan Jauc was in such a state ot health she couldn't thiuk of leaving! Resides, she said, what would become of your papa ? Aunt Jerusha sometimes bus a state of ? health too. On Washing day she hus a I headache, aud does her head upiu browu paper aud vinegar ; and 1 have to make toast at the kitcbeu fire; aud i make ! some for tnyaelf too. ?^\.uut Jerusha^ays that nobody knows ^uat"*hc hu* done*^or that boy. That buy's mo again. I told pa what she said 11c said that was just so, nobody did know. Ma said that Auot Jerusha means well, nnd that she's pn'a dear sis ter 1 don't see why that's any reason she should always scold when I eat cabbage ! with a knife. Individual Ministry.?Mr. Wil I Hum Reynolds, of Illinois, said: I taught 1 I a class once without results. It troub led me sorely. 1 told my troubles to n minister of Christ, who was staying with me. "You lack faith," said he, ' have you ever taken your scholars obe by ono, aud asked them why they are not Christians?" "Nu, 1 never have." "Well, there is your difficulty. You j have lacked faith in the virtue of such ; direct labor with them. Take your class now, and ask each one ol them personally, : - What keeps you, my dear?, from the Lord Jesus Christ?, Let us go apart aud pray lor your scholars." We went to an upper room, nnd prayed that God would givo nie, as the teacher, eaoli one ol my scholars on the very next day. The next day us the Sabbath. I resolved that I would honor God by believing His promises. There was no unusual religious interest in the school. As I longed and prayed for my class my faith increased. I pleaded, *(.) Lord, j for thy name'a sake, for Jesus' sake, give me all of my scholars for theo on the morrow." 1 went to my class the next day with feelings I never had before. 1 taught the lesson. I applied it. ??Anne, when do you expect to be a Christian?" ?1 don't know, Mr. Reynolds." "Don't you feel that you ought to be one now ?" "Yes. sir." ? Anne, will you not surrender your heart to Jesus ?" She burst into tears. I faithfully spoke to the next, until my five were in tears, and one of them said to me, ??Won't you please meet us in a prayer meeting at our bouse, Mr Reynolds." "With pleasure." I went there; wc knelt in prnyer. and overy one them, there upon their Knees, gavo themselves away to Jesus; and there they nro earnest ChiistiuiiB to day ?three of them in my Sabbath school, leading others to the same Saviour. I took anoth r eines, and pursued the same course. All but ono wero converted to Christ?Report of the Third National (American) Sunday School timt'enrion. How to Know the Trutr*?At a recent inquiry meeting, Rays a writer in tho American Messenger, I catno to a young law atudeut of strong mind, and asked him, "Where are you on this great matter of salvation V "I don't know. I am all afloat. I I don't know an T believe in the Bible or in Qod, or anythiug else." "Are you happy in that, condition ?" "No, I am not." He was an orphan, aud among strangers* "Well, there is a very simple and easy way to settle those doubts. Jesus says, 'If n man will do his will, he shall know of the doctrine, whether it be ot God, or whether I speak of myself.' Isu't it worth trying/9" "Yes," sabl he, 'it is." And bo did try it. At our next meeting he rose and said: "My friends, I am in the dark, but I have determined to give my heart and life to the service of Qod. Will you pray for me?" For two or three days he Continued steadfast, though still in the dark, and then light dawned upon his soul. Now he knows the doctrine of God, and that there is a blessed reality in religion. Suppoht Yot'r Home Paper.?We know of nothing that is more dishearten ing to the publisher of a country news paper, than to be told as he often is: 'I take the Herald (or some other huge weekly) and it costs me but two dollars a year, and contains a deal trorc reading I matter than yours/ Docs thnt mnu consider thut its receipts for one week arc double the yearly receipts of a country paper ? Does ho consider also thut if that paper were published a thousand years it would not beuefit him as much as his home paper docs in one? That is the thing. Sec which will build up yout own section; 6ee which will be the greater benefit to your owu district. It is the county paper that directs the attention of people to your farms, and publishes to the World Jta advantages, invites capital and advauccs interest iu its own aud adjoining counties. Besides, it is true that the huge weekly made up of the ponderous articles of the daily, contains more valuable matter than the county paper. It is not always filled up with lengthy editorials on some sub ject foreign to your interests and your taste, with loug-witided, gusty novels, (the very bane of tho reading public,) and extended accounts of this and that; while your county paper if conducted properly, will give you everything of importance in the most concise manner, and you have your time left to spend in something more profitable than wading through a whole ease of type. Let no one fail *o take his county paper first, and if he shuuld want a daily let that be a second consideration. How to Stop C he win u Tobacco.? In a recently-published pimphlct, tho Reverend Mr. Trask gives the following advice to tobacco chewers: 1. Muke the most of yout Will. Drop tobacco, and reselvc never to use it again, iu any form. 2. Go to an apothecary and buy ten cents worth of Gentian root coarsely ground. 3. Take as much of it after each meal, or oftcner, as amounts to a common quid of "fine cut" or "cavondish." 4. Chew it well and swallow all the saliva. 5. Continue this a few weeks, and you will come off conqueror; then thank God and thank us. Agricultural Items. A man may fleece his sheep, but not his land. The farmer's game is "give and take." It is estimated that the plauge has killed two hundred and ten thousand cat tle in England The I'nited States produced twenty five millions worth of cheese, and n hun dred millions of butter last year. A correspondent of tho Farmer's Club warns people against fending tho rhu barb plant to hogs; ho lost sevoi al by doing it.* All plants grew stronger and ripen better when tho nir circulates freely around them, and tho sun is not prevent ed from au immediate influence. A correspondent of tho Ohio Farmer, writing from Lorian Co., Ohio, says three young men sheared 692 sheep, yielding 3,228 pound* of wool, iu Ihir teon days. The California wheat now afloat ? worth four million dollars, ?- ?--.? " 1 '?* A western writer says if as much u * tout ion Was paid tu improving corn as Is given to grapes, a hundred million bu*h? ols might bo added to to the annual croj. , It is easy to equal any fancy breed ' cow with a native as a milker, but If the daughter if the native is as good a oov, it is an accident, not so in thoroughbred stock. A writer in the Country Gentleman recommends fastening cows'' tailg to thu barn joist where milking is done, by means of a cord and hooks made of wire. Many Eugllsh farmers feed no hay to their work horses, but keep them in high working order with straw, roots and shorts. The equivalent of 12 tons if hay czv: be produced on one acre th foots A writer in the American Stock Jour nal Bavs thut costivonesa and its accom panyiug evils are the mam cause of sows destroying their young/and that greeu and other proper food is the preventive and cure. Good implements are indeed indispen sable to success, and be wbo has provided them will not only have, greater pleasure in bis labors, but the proflia which at tend the judicious application of botb ?uue and labor. An experienced Iowa wool-grower gives $1.50 as the probable average cost of keeping a Bheep a year, in that State. Gas-tar, miuglcd with whitewash np plied to the interior of a hen-bouse, at the rate of ono gill to a pailfull, it is said will disperse the lice. I It pays to make a cow comfortable in . as many respects as possible. Every hour she sutlers from any cause, the milk accouut sutlers correspondingly. j Forty thousand beef cattle, bound north, have crossed thq Brazos river, ut' Waco, Texas, the present season; four thousand crossed iu two successive daye. Farmers in Minnesota are paying twenty-four per cent, interest tor money to bold their wheat, not wishing to take eighty or eighty-five cents a bushel forI" it. An old stable keeper in England rays he has never hud a bad foot on his horses since he commenced the practice of bed-' ding on a thick layer of sawdust; Flue" sawdust be finds the best, oak the wors . The farmer who stints bis fields, is ai unwise and improvident as he who starve* his working cuttle in both eases be is diminishing the ability of a faithf ul ser vant to be useful to him. The Ohio Farmer estimates the com crop in Northern Ohio will not be more than one-third an average, with half n crop of fpddcr, and that the whole State will not yield more than half a crop. It is uu excellent plan to keep a lump of common chalk in the feeding tiough constantly, after the calves are a month old; this will correct tho acidity of the stomach and have a tendency to keep tbciu iu a healthy Btate. A farmer residing in DeWitt, Clinton county, raised 212 bushels of wheat en six and one half acres of ground in lSo*i> be raised 2UU bushels, or an average id' 311 bushels to the aero for each year A company has been formed In Jfew/ York to bring fresh meat to that market from Texas. The entire hold of thi vessel is lined with non-conducting foil; aud by chemical means a cold below the freezing point will bo kept up. Milton Mcrrifield, of Providence, caught fifty-two rats in one nig'nt, by exchanging a barrol of oats tL I l.at> been often visited by rata for on?' . water, covering the surface with vhaf . The "varmints" unsuspectingly *.itchei iu, and met a watery grave. T'aia ism old but excellent trap where these an! ma .a are plenty. A correspondent of tho "Dixie Farmer gives a report of tho &r'.x 0j tne raised on his dairy fam.\ this year. Tne bull used Was a two year old Aldcrney. The cows were fcf different graded. Twenty-eight coir* produced: 13 ma*/* and 13 female ca',ves; 12 heifers brougl.t niue malts and thrco female cafcv.os. At the mf oting of the- Social- Science Association^ in Albany, Now. York, fhr following statement wua made: in. New York alr.ne, $32,000,000 worth oC uu .iI. annually is consumed, bc*ide*8^O0f>,(io;i pounds of butter, valued' at $33,060,000? 72,000,000 poujids of cheese, valued at $14,000,000?a total of 1X9,000,000. An Arab* proverb concerning tho hon*, was: "The fijrsb soven years for my young brother, the next seve? for myself, ami tho Dost lb* my enemy." So far as tb^, re<XMuinen6V light usago during the youth of a horso it is worthy of acecj. tao.ee, but the period of full, strength, and; activity is made too short, if the horrc, ^ weJl catV? fer^